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Feeds and Feeding. 



that of corn for fattening pigs, obtaining the results shown in the 

 table given below : 



Wheat meal for fattening pigs. 



*Kan. State Bd. Agr., 1894. 



Averaging the trials we find that it required 6 lbs. more corn 

 meal than wheat meal to produce 100 lbs. of gain. The difference 

 being small, we may conclude that wheat and corn are equally valu- 

 able for fattening swine. At the Oregon Station^ Withycombe found 

 that 528 lbs. of whole wheat, 445 lbs. of finely ground wheat, and 410 

 lbs. of crushed wheat produced 100 lbs. of gain with fattening pigs. 

 Grinding to a meal saved 16 per ct.. and crushing or rolling 29 per 

 ct., over the whole grain. 



Grisdale of the Ottawa Experimental Farms^ found that from 360 

 lbs. to 400 lbs. of frozen wheat were required to produce 100 lbs. of 

 gain with fattening pigs — a most favorable showing for such grain. 

 Frozen wheat alone produced as satisfactory gains as 2 parts of 

 frozen wheat and 1 part of wheat middlings, corn, or barley. (161) 



849. Red-dog flour. — ^At the Virginia Station^ 54-lb. pigs were fed 

 soaked red-dog fiour and corn meal, equal parts, for 58 days. They 

 gained 1.3 lbs. daily, requiring but 390 lbs. of the mixture for 100 

 lbs. of gain, while on the same feed given dry 490 lbs. were required. 

 The high value of red-dog flour when properly fed is here shown. 

 This feed serves its highest purpose with quite young pigs, which 

 need a highly digestible, palatable feed, containing little fiber. (164) 



850. Wheat middlings.— At the Wisconsin Station^ the author fed 

 3 lots, each of 3 pigs averaging 60 lbs., giving to the first corn meal, 

 to the second high-grade wheat middlings, and to the third a mixture 

 of equal parts of the two. The feeding period covered 6 weeks, with 

 the results shown on the following page. 



It will be seen that high quality wheat middlings fed alone proved 

 somewhat superior to corn meal. From trials extending over several 



Bui. 80. 



Ept. 1908. 



Bui. 167. 



♦ Ept. 1885. 



